Parts were ordered, received and assembled into a computer. One of the two standoffs for the M.2 slot was missing... well.. before putting the computer together first thing I did was take off the plastic shroud and pull out the built-in wireless network module from the miniture PCIe slot... I remember it had a strange rattle to it, but shrugged, set it aside, and went on with the build, because I was not going to use it anyway.

Guess where that missing standoff was? The newegg review lost 2 eggs for that. Had I left the standoff in there unknowingly, it might have shorted something out and exploded things.

I was getting 120k PPD according to one project (forget which one) on just the ryzen 7 1700x processor... while I was doing the burn-in test. Holy smokes that thing is fast.

Just finished encrypting everything and built the ZFS "library" raidz pool... next step is to configure the root operating system a bit more, then move on to setting up LXC. Still have a long ways to go for this.

Time for sleep.

Oh I almost forgot to mention... the computer is called "twilight" and the ZFS pool is called "library"... I've had to rebuild the library several times now, figuring out how ZFS works with the encryption I decided to go with. I'm sure twilight understands and won't murder me in my sleep... maybe.